Towards multimodal spoken language corpora

Nivre, Joakim; Tullgren, Kristina; Allwood, Jens; Ahlsén, Elisabeth; Holm, Jenny; Grönqvist, Leif; Lopez-Kästen, Dario; Sofkova, Sylvana

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“…Tools used to create and edit video subtitles, captions, or transcripts are those most similar to the Digital Democracy Transcription Tool (see Section 2.4). One of the earliest approaches of providing a software package for creating and synchronizing video transcripts was introduced by Nivre et al [45]. Seps [64] created Nan-oTrans, a tool that allows for creation of both textual and phonetic transcriptions, including tracks in waveform.…”

Section: Transcription Editing and Annotation Toolsmentioning

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Deconstructing Human-assisted Video Transcription and Annotation for Legislative Proceedings

Ruprechter

Khosmood

Guetl

2020

Digit. Gov.: Res. Pract.

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Legislative proceedings present a rich source of multidimensional information that is crucial to citizens and journalists in a democratic system. At present, no fully automated solution exists that is capable of capturing all the necessary information during such proceedings. Even if professional-quality automated transcriptions existed, other tasks such as speaker or rhetorical position identifications are not fully automatable. This work focuses on improving and evaluating the transcription software used by the Digital Democracy initiative, named Transcription Tool. Human transcribers work to up-level state legislative proceedings using this tool. Five phases of tool improvements are introduced and for each phase, the resulting change in efficiency is measured. We investigate over 12,000 individual transcription sessions (2,300 hours of video), where each session is the record of one bill discussion. A set of about 3,200 sessions belonging to a single cohort of 20 transcribers is further evaluated. Through introduction of new tool features, human-assisted transcription efficiency can be improved by 19.4% over five phases. Furthermore, investigation into transcriber usage patterns reveals that transcription time is composed of passive time, speaker identification, text correction, tool startup, as well as splitting and merging utterances. We analyze and rank these as a contribution.

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Section: Transcription Editing and Annotation Toolsmentioning

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Deconstructing Human-assisted Video Transcription and Annotation for Legislative Proceedings

Ruprechter

Khosmood

Guetl

2020

Digit. Gov.: Res. Pract.

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“…The interviews were of an average time of 1 h 39 min per interview and rendered a total corporate of about 240,000 words after transcription of all interviews. The interviews were transcribed according to the Göteborg Transcription Standard (GTS) version 6.4 (Nivre et al, 2004).…”

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Using systemic functional linguistic metafunction as a tool in identifying Agency in organizational change in cross-cultural management contexts

Cordeiro

2017

Int'l Jnl of Cross Cultural Management

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This contribution addresses the echoing sentiment that the function of language is not enough focused on in management as an academic discipline even as it is acknowledged that language lies at the heart of international business (IB) activities that take place in crosscultural management (CCM) contexts. Organizations operate in contexts of uncertainty and change, finding themselves increasingly having to navigate in cross-cultural environments in the context of globalization and international management. Yet, few studies outside the field of applied linguistics (especially discourse analysis) have used language as an instrumental tool in uncovering the subtle workings of influence in organizational change. Scholastic literature in CCM suggests that language in IB is generally studied in two broad dimensions of inquiry-language as (i) object/phenomenon (nature of language) and as (ii) process/function (nature of meaning from language). Because organizational change can be difficult to define when looking at it as a broad process over time, this article addresses the latter nature of language in CCM and IB studies in illustrating how language metafunctions can be used as a methodological tool in analysing qualitative data in order to uncover Agency or actors of influence in processes of organization change in a crosscultural working context.

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“…Some of these words/sounds occur both in voiced and unvoiced versions. Further mentions and lists of ingressive feedback are given in Allwood (1981: 33; 1985: 33; 2000: 19; 2001: 33); Allwood & Strömqvist (1988: 88); Allwood & Björnberg (1999: 7); Nivre, Ahlsén & Allwood (1999); Allwood et al (2000, 2001a, 2001b: 3).…”

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Pulmonic ingressive phonation: Diachronic and synchronic characteristics, distribution and function in animal and human sound production and in human speech

Eklund¹

2008

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0025100308003563How to cite this article: Robert Eklund (2008). Pulmonic ingressive phonation: Diachronic and synchronic characteristics, distribution and function in animal and human sound production and in human speech.This paper looks at the phenomenon of ingressive speech, i.e. speech produced on a pulmonic ingressive airstream, set in the context of human and animal ingressive phonation. The literature on ingressive speech and phonation spanning several centuries is reviewed, as well as contemporary reports of their incidence and characteristics from both functional and acoustic perspectives. Ingressive phonation has been used as a deliberate means of speech or sound production for hundreds of years in order to achieve specific effects, and it is still used for the same purposes, by e.g. shamans and ventriloquists. In normal spoken conversation -contrary to what is often claimed -present-day ingressive speech is not limited to Scandinavia or Nordic languages, but is found on all continents, in genetically unrelated languages. Where ingressive speech occurs, it serves more or less the same paralinguistic functions, such as a feedback marker in a dialog. Since pulmonic ingressive phonation is also common in the calls of monkeys and apes, thus exhibiting a biological basis, it is suggested that ingressive speech might constitute a neglected universal phenomenon, rather than being highly marked, which is how it is commonly described in the literature.If asked, 'Will you marry me?' no one would answer with an ingressive ja.research and experience show that EVERYONE does it, albeit in varying degrees. Anecdotes and general opinion aside, there is -to the best of the author's knowledge -no comprehensive overview of this phenomenon. A few years ago, having stumbled across ingressive speech while analyzing data for a different purpose (reported later in this paper), the author decided to explore in depth the phenomenon of ingressive phonation.This paper aims to describe pulmonic ingressive phonation and speech from many angles. Consequently, such widely different areas as zoology, physiology, acoustics, pathology, anthropology, ventriloquism, shamanism, musicology, general linguistics, paralinguistics, phonetics, and sociolinguistics will be covered, as will more practical aspects such as the annotation of ingressive phonation within various disciplines. This paper should be regarded as a linguistic-phonetic overview that goes back to the Pythea of Delphi (and even earlier than that) and extends to present-day automatic speech synthesis and recognition.This article is a review paper that summarizes a cornucopia of the literature. The paper's working title was based around the words what, how, where, who and why, which is reflected in its structure. Consequently, the paper starts out by describing WHAT ingressive speech is and HOW it is produced (part I), WHERE it is found and WHO uses it (part II), and WHY it is used (part III). Finally (part IV), an overv...

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Towards multimodal spoken language corpora

Cited by 12 publications

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Deconstructing Human-assisted Video Transcription and Annotation for Legislative Proceedings

Deconstructing Human-assisted Video Transcription and Annotation for Legislative Proceedings

Using systemic functional linguistic metafunction as a tool in identifying Agency in organizational change in cross-cultural management contexts

Pulmonic ingressive phonation: Diachronic and synchronic characteristics, distribution and function in animal and human sound production and in human speech

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